'Bickering amongst Dutch law enforcement officials'

According to De Telegraaf, there is a lot of merry bickering going on between Dutch law enforcement and intelligence agencies on how to handle the investigation into the Van Gogh murder.

Please bear in mind that De Telegraaf is a populist newspaper. It needn't be true. But if it is, I don't feel this is a bad thing. There have long been signs that something is amiss in many of those agencies. It's probably good that it can't remain hidden anymore. Politicians, as well as many Dutch, are so angry that they won't ignore it this time. Maybe (I'm hoping here) justice minister Piet-Hein Donner will actually dismiss the current attorney-general Joan de Wijkerslooth, who is in my opinion a legalistic bureaucrat who should stick to enforcing manure policy, rather than fighting terrorism and crime. This is the guy that tried to get a Dutch soldier convicted for murdering an Iraqi, who was (probably, there's no body) shot when a group of Dutch soldiers tried to protect supplies against Iraqi looters. The military tribunal dismissed all charges, and even then the guy appealed the verdict.
So yeah, this is a perfect time to do some proper cleaning. Something about forging iron when it's hot, or as the Dutch say, castrating the bull when his testicles are already stuck in the barbed wire fence.
(I made that one up.)

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